COALESCE, the Consortium on Advanced Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Civil Environments, has as objectives the development of advanced technologies for visualization and health monitoring of civil infrastructure systems under natural and society-induced hazards, the integration of model-based analysis and field and laboratory experiments, and the creation of tools for effective and informed life-cycle decisions for the built environment.
The Consortium is dedicated to the incorporation of advanced technologies for safety assessment, management of civil infrastructure under multiple hazard scenarios, and optimal lifetime performance. It starts with the premise of a sustainable environment, and takes its name, COALESCE, from the dictionary definition: To unite into a whole, and to grow together.